Meditation is not about trying to change your experience; it's about changing your relationship to your experience.

The Dhamma unfolds in accordance with a definite sequence: faith, virtue, learning, generosity, wisdom, and insight.

Dependent origination is not a theory about the origin of the world but a teaching that shows how suffering originates in dependence on our own mental processes.

The perfect moment is this one, not the one you're waiting for.

The development of wisdom does not occur in isolation but requires the cultivation of the entire Noble Eightfold Path.

Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.

Whatever is dependently co-arisen, that is explained to be emptiness. That, being a dependent designation, is itself the middle way.

The mind of the past is ungraspable; the mind of the future is ungraspable; the mind of the present is ungraspable.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Life is available only in the present moment.

The heart of the path is quite simple. No need for long explanations. Give up clinging to love and hate, just rest with things as they are.

Every time we become aware of a thought, as opposed to being lost in a thought, we experience that opening of the mind.

Enlightenment is not the end of change but the end of resistance to change.

The mind is like a well-forged sword - it adapts to all situations.

The Buddha's teachings are not a religion, but a science of mind.

When dharma fills your body and mind, you realize that something is missing.

Where there is great doubt, there is great awakening; small doubt, small awakening; no doubt, no awakening.

Without darkness, there is no light. Without the path, there is no arrival.

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

What is the sound of one hand clapping?

The past is for learning from, not for living in.

Metta is the ability to embrace all parts of ourselves, as well as all parts of the world.

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

The cave I live in is empty and so is my mind. I live simply and at ease.

True happiness is born of letting go of what is unnecessary.

The law of nature is the law of cause and effect. As you sow, so shall you reap.

The realization of impermanence leads not to despair but to a deeper appreciation of the preciousness of each moment.

If you want to find peace, then look at that point where you find you're dissatisfied and investigate what's really going on.

The most profound meditation is to think nothing at all.

Enlightenment is not about becoming something special, but about realizing what we already are.

The secret of happiness lies not in getting what we want, but in learning to want what we already have.

Peace and negativity cannot coexist just as light and darkness cannot coexist.

The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous. Then they will be in control in a wider sense.